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From: Alex Kotenko <alexykot@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 01:58:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDj+BY2jEL6-NwGdrh3wdcmjW_7tEDDxmyiP6woOxCg8bMQKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0OaAKTLR2hL6kReBFcD6FoXYV9AoqMbn0WwqYgtTNtQKw@mail.gmail.com>

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Ok, what do I need to do? How do I host a testnet seed myself?

Best regards,
Alex Kotenko


2014-05-16 23:02 GMT+01:00 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>:

> There are only two testnet seeds listed in bitcoind, and one of them
> returns SERVFAIL (testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org) and the other
> just returns one A record (testnet-seed.bluematt.me).  No idea what
> seeds bitcoinj uses.
>
> If you are going to depend on testnet, especially for an important
> demo... contribute to the infrastructure!  This stuff doesn't just fix
> itself for free.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Alex Kotenko <alexykot@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> >
> > Just wanted to let you know that Andreas' testnet Bitcoin Wallet doesn't
> > work because of fail in the peer discovery, and this caused us problems
> as
> > we cannot properly demonstrate my XBTerminal POS on the Bitcoin
> Conference.
> >
> > Right now I'm booting up an own full node that I will set as trusted
> peer in
> > the Wallet settings, hopefully this will work. However this DNS discovery
> > problem is really a problem, even for testnet. Btw, I had problems
> firing up
> > the full bitcoind node also, of the same reason - discovery failed. I
> had to
> > ask Andreas to paste me his node list to manually seed the nodelist.
> >
> > So I've set up and will run a well connected testnet node, as we need it
> for
> > the XBTerminal.
> > Please let me know if I can somehow help to fix the DNS discovery issue
> > also.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex Kotenko
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-16 17:46 GMT+01:00 Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net>:
> >
> >> It looks like it might be firewalled, probably just need to fix the ACL
> in
> >> EC2.
> >>
> >> -Laszlo
> >>
> >> On May 16, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Apparently British Telecom also cannot speak to Peter Todd's server.
> >> >
> >> > That another very large ISP in Europe.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 05/15/2014 01:50 PM, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> >> >> I'm bringing this issue up again. The current Bitcoin DNS seed
> >> >> infrastructure is unstable. I assume this is because of we're using a
> >> >> custom DNS implementation which is not 100% compatible. There have
> been
> >> >> bugs in the past, like a case sensitive match for the domain name.
> >> >>
> >> >> Current state (seeds taken from bitcoinj):
> >> >>
> >> >> mainnet:
> >> >>
> >> >> seed.bitcoin.sipa.be                 OK
> >> >> dnsseed.bluematt.me                  OK
> >> >> dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org           SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs
> >> >> seed.bitcoinstats.com                        OK
> >> >>
> >> >> testnet:
> >> >>
> >> >> testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org   SERVFAIL, just from Telefonica
> >> >> testnet-seed.bluematt.me             OK (but only returns one node)
> >> >>
> >> >> Note: Telefonica is one of Europe's largest ISPs.
> >> >>
> >> >> I would try to improve DNS myself, but I'm not capable of writing C.
> My
> >> >> "fix" would be to reimplement everything in Java -- I doubt you guys
> >> >> would be happy with that.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-17  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-15 11:50 [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-15 17:17 ` Drak
2014-05-15 17:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-15 17:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-16  9:15   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-16 14:09     ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-15 18:05 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-05-16 16:34 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-16 16:46   ` Matt Whitlock
2014-05-16 16:46   ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-05-16 17:07     ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-16 22:02       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-17  0:58         ` Alex Kotenko [this message]
2014-05-17 11:39           ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-17 12:02             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-17 12:39               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-19 20:14                 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 20:22                   ` Michael Wozniak
2014-05-19 20:38                     ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 20:36                   ` Robert McKay
2014-05-19 23:49                     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-20  0:44                       ` Robert McKay
2014-05-20  0:50                         ` Robert McKay
2014-05-21  9:23                           ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-21 11:03                             ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-21 11:10                               ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-21 11:26                                 ` Andreas Schildbach
     [not found]                                   ` <537DBC3C.4090907@schildbach.de>
2014-06-11 13:57                                     ` Alex Kotenko
2014-06-11 14:24                                       ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-20  0:45                       ` Michael Wozniak
2014-05-16 17:17   ` Rob Golding
2014-05-16 17:34     ` Nick Simpson
2014-05-16 21:46     ` Luke Dashjr
2014-05-16 18:53 ` Matt Corallo
2014-05-16 19:43   ` Andreas Schildbach
     [not found]   ` <8ADB6ABE-371C-4F4A-A003-F6751B01A12F@heliacal.net>
     [not found]     ` <53766148.1000708@bluematt.me>
2014-05-17  1:06       ` Matt Corallo

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